I think he would probably term (his outing) as inconsistent. I don't think he's happy with the (three) walks and the deep counts. But being able to survive and keep the lead, I think he'll settle for that. |
If you can get ahead of them and use your breaking ball, you can maybe be OK, but they are a good mistake-hitting team. It seemed like every ball we left up in critical situations, they put good wood on it. |
In times like these, guys try too hard to make routine plays. Calm down. Make those. And let your pitching and defense carry you. |
It's a different ball game when the season starts. It's for real, and it counts. The guys in spring training don't feel the same rush as they do during the regular season. |
It's going to be good to get the game back to the way it should be. I think the guys who replaced those guys did the best job they could under the circumstances, but I think it was probably more unfair to the players to have this happen. It's always good when the game comes back to where it should be. |
Right now we don't have anything working, expect for the pitching. The defense is not consistent right now and we're not getting the big hits, no two-out base hits or (sacrifice) flies that we were getting a week ago. |
The organization thinks a lot of Mike. |
The thinking (in spring training was) they were going to give us a better blend of veteran guys to support the younger guys. |
They've got to understand, late in the game when you can get beat, you want to get beat the other way. You don't want to get beat by a guy's power. |
Unfortunately, that's just part of the game. |
War and space exploration are alternative uses of the assertive, exploratory energies that are so characteristic of human beings. They may also be mutually exclusive because if one occurs on a massive scale, the other probably will not. |
We have guys that really want to go out and play and they want to win. And they work really hard, so if we put forth our best effort I think we'll be fine. |
We have spoken to Federal Express to be ready to load up everything the day before Oct. 11, which is Tuesday. |
We've got to get the pitching under control where it can keep us in games. |
You don't really scoreboard watch because the other teams don't put the other games on the scoreboard like we do, ... We basically want to win our game, then when our game is over you ask 'What did they do?' |